Tyre Disposal and Recycling

This is an eventful time for the tyre industry when it comes to tyre disposal. The landfill bans are creeping ever nearer, the End of Life Vehicle Directive looms and retreading – for so long one of the main avenues of disposal – is far from buoyant. Then there is the row over the definition of waste, which is exercising the minds of many would-be recyclers and, they say, hampering their efforts to deal with scrap tyres effectively.

On top of all this, in the UK the Government has asked the tyre industry to think again about producer responsibility after rejecting their original ideas. An eventful time indeed..